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Put your hands on the wheel
Let the golden age begin
Let the window down
Feel the moonlight on your skin
Let the desert wind
Cool your aching head
Let the weight of the world
Drift away instead
These day I barely get by
I don't even try
It's a treacherous road
With a desolated view
There's distant lights
But here they're far and few
And the sun don't shine
Even when its day
You gotta drive all night
Just to feel like you're ok
These days I barely get by
I don't even try
Let the golden age begin
Let the window down
Feel the moonlight on your skin
Let the desert wind
Cool your aching head
Let the weight of the world
Drift away instead
These day I barely get by
I don't even try
It's a treacherous road
With a desolated view
There's distant lights
But here they're far and few
And the sun don't shine
Even when its day
You gotta drive all night
Just to feel like you're ok
These days I barely get by
I don't even try
Lyrics submitted by AlkalineSkiba1
Track duration: 04:35
"The Golden Age" as written by Craig Mackenzie Armstrong, A. R. Rahman
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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"It's a treacherous road with a desolated view. There's distant lights, But here they're far and few" This to me is the image of California dessert, roads, city lights yonder...Beck is from Cali, you know!
The greatest thing about this song is a strange feature for a sound file. It is... so graphic! Soothing and yet demolishing at the same time. It evokes heartbreak so graphically well that it's almost as if you're watching everything, the guy fucked up, thrown in a couch.
The wind-like noise at the end is a perfect sonic metaphor for something dying out that there could be, it reminds me of a similar one tucked at the end of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
the golden age is about acceptance. that is to say, accepting the circumstances of a relationship that has dissolved. if you follow the record, it takes you on a journey of his experiences in this relationship...
from the first line "put your hands on the wheel"
to the end of the journey with the closing track "Side of the Road"
the entire record is a metaphor for his relationship with his girl, the fact that relationship had to come to an end, and his coming to terms with it... which at the end of the record and "journey" or "drive" he does.
great record and amazing song.
i think "the golden age" which is about to start is the singers young adulthood which is about to begin. the road ahead is dark and potentially disappointing but for the moment the future is unknown so hop in the car and go for the ride... :)
Depression test, still loving your ex etc.
Great song by the way